Chapter 215: Sensation

The seventh day of the fifth lunar month, Sunday.

Early in the morning, after eating white porridge with cucumber peel, Deng Shirong took his six children and nephews, nieces and nephews' husbands to Litchi Mountain to pick litchis. As for his daughter-in-law, she stayed at home to take care of the children.

At the same time, Deng Yunqiang also took his children to Litchi Mountain to pick litchis.

Today was the day agreed upon by the two families to pick lychees. As for the lychees from Deng Changfu's father-in-law's house, they would be picked tomorrow.

There are ten laborers in Deng Shirong's family. Even though Deng Yunhua and Deng Yunheng are still a little young, the lychee trees are not very tall to begin with, so it is not a difficult task for them to help pick lychees. Their picking speed is not much slower than that of adults.

In just over half an hour, more than twenty baskets of litchi were picked.

Deng Shirong saw this and ordered, "Yuntai, Dashi, we can pick the rest. You two can start carrying the lychees home!"

Deng Yuntai and Bu Dashi responded and began to carry baskets of lychees to the foot of the mountain, and then transported the lychees back on bicycles.

A bicycle can carry four baskets of lychees at a time, and two people can carry eight baskets at a time, so the efficiency is still very high.

Compared with them, Deng Yunqiang's family was much slower because they didn't have any bicycles and had to carry the goods back one load at a time by manpower.

In one hour, Deng Shirong and others picked a total of 35 baskets of litchi.

Looking at the remaining lychees, Deng Shirong said directly: "Okay, don't pick the rest, save them for your family to eat slowly."

Bu Dafang glanced at the remaining lychees and said in surprise, "Uncle, we can still pick at least 300 kilograms of lychees. Should we keep them all for eating?"

Deng Shirong said, "Keep it. We grow so many lychees. If our family doesn't have any to eat, what's the point of making more money?"

Deng Yunzhen smiled and said, "Dad, don't forget that we still have a straight lychee tree at home. We can pick 300 to 400 kilograms of lychees. Are you still worried that we won't have lychees to eat?"

"How can the taste of lychees compare to Guiwei? Tomorrow is Shuangwang Market. We can pick them and sell them at the market. I think we can make some money."

"Uncle, you are so willing to eat them. Other people's lychees are eager to sell all, but you keep hundreds of kilograms. It's really scary."

"Okay, stop sighing, the sun is getting hotter and hotter, hurry up and help move the lychees down!"

“…”

…

Deng Shirong's family and Deng Yunqiang's family were picking lychees today. Such a big commotion naturally could not be hidden from the villagers. After receiving the news, the villagers came to Deng Shirong's house curiously, wanting to see how much the lychees from these two families could be sold for this year.

Especially those villagers who later followed suit to plant Guiwei lychees were extremely concerned.

As basket after basket of lychees were brought back from Deng Shirong's and Deng Yunqiang's homes, the villagers who came to watch couldn't help but start discussing it.

"Jiugong's family has brought back 32 baskets of lychees. Does anyone know how heavy this basket of lychees is?"

"If this bamboo basket is full, it will probably weigh about 70 to 80 kilograms!"

"Even if each basket only weighs 70 kilograms, these 32 baskets together weigh more than 2,200 kilograms. How much is the supply and marketing cooperative buying it for? Does anyone know?"

"I'm not sure about that. We've never sold lychees before!"

"I asked when I went to Shuangwang Market before, and they said it was 68 cents per pound."

"So expensive? Who can help me calculate how much these 2,200 kilograms of lychees from Jiugong's family can be sold for?"

"What are you thinking? The supply and marketing cooperative gives you a purchase price, which is different from the retail price at the market."

"Yeah, so what's the purchase price?"

“…”

Amid the villagers' discussion, Deng Shirong and his family returned, bringing with them the last three baskets of lychees.

Someone immediately asked, "Jiu Gong, have you picked all the lychees?"

Deng Shirong smiled and said, "We haven't picked all of them yet, so we'll keep some for ourselves."

Everyone thought that if they kept some, they would really just keep a little bit. They probably never dreamed that Deng Shirong would keep more than 300 kilograms for himself.

Someone else asked, "Uncle Jiu, what is the purchase price given by the supply and marketing cooperative?"

"50 cents a pound."

After hearing Deng Shirong's answer, the few villagers who were good at arithmetic immediately calculated a rough number and felt excited. Especially the villagers who had already planted Guiwei lychee trees at home, they were all filled with surprise.

Those who were not good at arithmetic were shocked when they heard others calculate that 2,000 kilograms of lychees could be sold for 1,000 yuan.

In the second year of planting, the income was more than one thousand yuan, which was simply incredible.

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At this moment, those villagers who were afraid of taking risks and did not dare to plant litchi trees were so regretful that they slapped their thighs.

I believe that after today's stimulation, every household in the village will open orchards and plant litchi trees.

…

At nine o'clock in the morning, a medium-sized tractor sent by the supply and marketing cooperative drove to Deng Shirong's house, and then the litchi began to be weighed and loaded.

In the end, after statistics, Deng Shirong's family produced a total of 2,658 kilograms of lychees, which were sold for 1,329 yuan.

Deng Yunqiang's family harvested a total of 3,062 kilograms of lychees, which were sold for 1,531 yuan.

Seeing the "real gold and silver" in the hands of Deng Shirong and Deng Yunqiang, the villagers present were so excited that their faces turned red.

In this era, anyone who can earn 30 yuan a month and 360 yuan a year can be envied by countless people. The 1,531 yuan that Deng Yunqiang's family earned is a sum that many large families in the village cannot earn in three years. Who wouldn't be excited when seeing this? Although planting lychees requires at least several hundred yuan in the early stage, it only takes one year to recover the cost and make a lot of money. No family is willing to miss such a business.

Some impatient villagers even plan to plant litchi this year.

Deng Shirong listened to the general situation and thought about the extreme weather this winter. He could not help but warn: "If you want to grow lychees, you can open up the orchard first, but it is not recommended to plant this year. It is better to wait until the beginning of spring next year to plant. That way the survival rate of the seedlings will be higher."

All the villagers agreed after hearing this.

If someone else said this, the villagers might not listen. Who knows if you are afraid that I will get rich? But when Deng Shirong said this, even those anxious villagers listened.

After all, when Deng Shirong first started planting lychees, he didn't intend to eat it all by himself. He suggested that everyone else plant it. It was just that many villagers backed off when they heard that the initial investment would cost several hundred yuan.

After the supply and marketing cooperative's truck took away all the lychees, the villagers also dispersed.

Then, the news that Deng Shirong's and Deng Yunqiang's families sold lychees for more than 1,300 and 1,500 yuan respectively spread like wildfire throughout the Bangjie Brigade at an extremely fast speed, and even spread to other brigades.

In this day and age, earning more than a thousand yuan a year is extremely attractive.

(End of this chapter)